Quotes About Spirituality

Everything flows from God, but we are limited by imposing our human perceptions upon him. Man designs God according to his own image and the image man has of himself is flawed.

People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system. What I consider artificial is 4 years at Harvard, and the Bible, and Saint Patrick's cathedral, and the Sunday school teachings.

Drop Out--detach yourself from the external social drama which is as dehydrated and ersatz as TV. Turn On--find a sacrament which returns you to the temple of God, your own body. Go out of your mind. Get high. Tune In--be reborn. Drop back in to express it. Start a new sequence of behavior that reflects your vision.

If you want to move beyond hive-docility, you must become God the Moralist.

Prayer is ecstatic communication with your innernavigational computer.

The language of God is not English or Latin; the language of God is cellular and molecular.

What a struggle! Think of all the big powerful forces lined up ready to crush anything wonderful and holy and free!

If you do not fear God, then fear your dreams, because they're how He talks to you.

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

And as we wind on down the road Our shadows taller than our souls There walks a lady we all know Who shines white light and wants to show How everything still turns to gold And if you listen very hard The tune will come to you at last Where all are one and one is all To be a rock and not to roll.

Today, from the bridge, the East River is sparkling. The money is swirling around the tall buildings like tides or like tithes, And I wonder, does anyone swim in this river, I wonder, does anyone pray?

Poetry is God's work.

The God inside you is the same as the one inside them.

Books from the ancients, or the yogis and shamans, are your time capsules from yourselves to yourselves…

Because it was a tool of death," she said, "and this is a place of purity, peace, and harmony.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

There are just some kind of men ... who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one.

The power of prayer is still the greatest ever known in this endless eternal universe.

All we needed when we first came to Jesus was his grace, and grace is all we need to grow in Christ. Grace liberates us. Our tendency toward performance imprisons us.

There are two things you can do with your head down — play golf and pray.

When I was appointed a member of the Twelve, I said from this pulpit that I would rather have my children enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost than any other person or individual in the world; and I feel the same today, for them and for me, and for all of you.

For death is but a passing phase of Life; A change of dress, a disrobing; A birth into the unborn again; A commencing where we ended; A starting where we stopped to rest; A crossroad of Eternity; A giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

Tears are the Soul's baptism of cleansing.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.